Mayank Chandak

“Patañjali is saying that yoga is a preventive healing art, science and philosophy, by which we build up robust health in body and mind and construct a defensive strength with which to deflect or counteract afflictions that are as yet unperceived afflictions.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Essential Handbook of Pranayama, Asana, and Hindu Meditation

“Consciousness is imbued with the three qualities (gunas) of luminosity (sattva), vibrancy (rajas) and inertia (tamas). The gunas also colour our actions: white (sattva), grey (rajas) and black (tamas). Through the discipline of yoga, both actions and intelligence go beyond these qualities and the seer comes to experience his own soul with crystal clarity, free from the relative attributes of nature and actions. This state of purity is samadhi. Yoga is thus both the means and the goal. Yoga is samadhi and samadhi is yoga. There”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Essential Handbook of Pranayama, Asana, and Hindu Meditation

“The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life